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Personal info

Full name
JOHNSON, Joe Dalton
Date of birth
17 October 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Ben Lomond, Sevier County, Arkansas
Hometown
Battiest, McCurtain County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38698927
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
28 December 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 6 7

Immediate family

Members
Thad Johnson (father)
Deliah (Dulaney) Johnson (mother)
Herman Johnson (brother)
Wilbur Johnson (brother)
Zora Johnson (sister)
Mabel Johnson (sister)
Pauline Johnson (sister)
Edna (Beagles) Johnson (wife)
Earlene Johnson (daughter)

More information

Pvt Joe D. Johnson attended high school for two years and worked on the family farm before he enlisted at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on 2 May 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was reported seriously wounded in action on 26 December when G Company was starting to attack from Chaumont, Belgium in the direction of Bastogne.

He was killed by small arms fire wounding the intestines and neck.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, McCurtain Gazette - 31 January 1945